The Sticky From The Inside Podcast

Rapid growth and change bring unique people challenges to deal with.  Legend has it that Google's founders were still interviewing and signing off on new Googlers well into the first 1000 employees.  But is that sensible for everyone?  There's a point at which you have to let go of some stuff, right?
 
In this episode, your host, Andy Goram, talks to the experienced scale-up HR professional, and author of the book "Scaling For Success", Andrew Bartlow, on what it really takes to successfully deal with hypergrowth and take your people with you at the same time.

The landscape of the world of work is changing, rapidly, and employee engagement and employee experience have become a huge focus for businesses.  But what's the difference between them? Why do they matter? What should we be doing to future-proof our efforts?
 
In this episode, your host, Andy Goram, talks to global employee engagement expert, MD of People Lab, and author of the book "Employee Engagement", Emma Bridger, as they both try to answer these questions and more including what have Elon Musk, Lord Alan Sugar and Boris Johnson got to do with it all?

What does it take to be successful leader today?  Breaking the mould of all those poor leaders you had in your career and being your true, authentic self lies at the heart of it.
 
In this episode, your host, Andy Goram, talks to Tim Roberts, coach, motivational speaker and now the author of the book "Break The Mould, Volume 1. How  To Be Your Best Version Of You."  Tim doesn't take a conventional view of what makes a good leader.  He's got his own take on it and in this episode he shares that along with the inspiration for the book and some of the lessons contained within it.

What does it take to generate a truly caring culture within a business?  What moves you from talking about caring about the people you work with and have the privilege to lead, to actually doing it?  What are the benefits of truly caring?  Is that even a question we need to ask? Isn't it obvious?  Well, whether it is obvious or not, it certainly isn't common practice, despite what the last two years have shown us about the importance of looking out for each other and showing that people really matter.
 
In this episode your host, Andy Goram, talks to Jane Adshead-Grant, executive coach, and author of the books “Are you listening, or just waiting to speak?” and the recently published “The Listening Coach”.  Jane is also an Ambassador of Truly Human Leadership and part of the Chapman & Co. Institute who want to create more businesses who truly care.  The wonderful Bob Chapman and Barry Wehmiller story provides the backdrop for a great conversation on what it really takes to generate a truly caring culture.

"When the work of your heart, your hands, and your mind is done to serve others with delight, that is joy."  That is the mantra of Rich Sheridan, Co-Founder of Menlo Innovations, a software development company that is known the world over for its intentionally joyful culture.
 
In this episode, your host, Andy Goram talks to the international speaker and best-selling author of Joy Inc., and Chief Joy Officer about what it takes to create an intentionally joyful culture. But don't be fooled by the word joy.  This isn't a lesson in how to be more happy-clappy at work.  Far from it.  This is about working hard, as a team, with a clear sense of purpose and an empowering spirit of experimentation and trust.

In this episode, Andy Goram speaks to Emma Harvey, from Candid HR who's written a novel called "Have You Got A Minute?" which takes a look at the issues faced by HR professionals and businesses today, from a different perspective.
The characters and funny stories in the book are based on Emma's real-life experiences and she shares some of those as the two talk about issues like The Great Resignation, the battle for talent, hybrid-working, and of course, people having sex at work!

In a post-Pandemic world, how well you execute your go-forward strategy will heavily determine if you go on to just survive or thrive. So why do some businesses continue to separate strategy from employee engagement? Engagement without strategy execution, leaves you with people happily, productively doing things that are not actually benefitting the business. But strategy execution without engagement is not sustainable either.  The two go hand-in-hand.
 
In this episode, Andy Goram talks to Roly Walter from Appraisd, a tech company that is taking a fresh look at performance management, about how and why strategy execution and engagement should remain the best of bedfellows if you want long-term, sustainable success.

Understanding how and why the brain functions as it does can have a dramatic effect on your ability to engage with yourself and others.  In this episode, Andy Goram talks to Change Specialist, Neuroscientist, and Founder of Neuro At Work, Dominique Ashby about the influence our brains have on our ability to engage with the people in our teams, and the things we can all do to engage them more effectively. Using the backdrop of Spring, traditionally a time of change and new planning, Dominique shares her insights and tips for tuning into your brain and by doing so, maximising your ability to perform and engage.

Andy Goram and Business Psychologist, Pip Gwynn, from Insight-HRC discuss the concept of fairness at work, which has become a hot topic recently, based on the alleged behaviour at No. 10 Downing Street, lately.
 
Just 18% of us think we work in a high-fairness workplace, according to research by Gartner.  During this conversation, Andy & Pip discuss what this means for business, what's going on in our brains when we encounter situations we think are unfair, how that impacts our behaviour and what we can all do about it.

Andy Goram and Rob Robson from The People Experience Hub, look to answer the seemingly simple question, "What Is Employee Engagement, Anyway?" and see where they differ in their opinions.
 
During the conversation they discuss the plethora of definitions there are out there for employee and engagement and why that might be. They also dig into the measurement of it, sharing their opinions on what's good, what's bad, what's missing and what the future might look like.